I’m very excited to announce the opening of “39˚ 44′ 11″ N x 104˚ 59′ 21″ W“, an interactive installation included in Embrace! at the Denver Art Museum.

I am one of the collaborators on a team led by Timothy Weaver that also includes David Fodel, Brigid McAuliffe, and Nick Meyers. The show officially opened on November 14th, 2009 and our work is installed in the FuseBox Gallery on the 4th floor.

The Embrace! exhibit is all about engaging with the specific space of the Hamilton Building, designed by Daniel Liebeskind. The 39N x 104W (for short) interactive installation addresses the challenge by using ecological data (solar wind, terrestrial climate, and biological) specific to the location of the Fusebox space to “paint” the gallery with sound and images. The visitor to the space contributes to this process — a camera tracks his/her location which allows the images to move and temporarily paint the wall.

The exhibition runs through April 4th, 2010, and features the work of 17 artists from around the world. It’s the boldest exhibit yet in this building and definitely worth a visit.

Additional links:

• DU Today Feature Story on 39N x 104 W
• Denver Post Review of Embrace!
• A Denver blogger’s experience of bringing kids to Embrace!
• KCFR’s Ryan Warner interviews curator Christoph Heinrich and artist Rick Dula about Embrace! (Direct link to audio stream)

Below you’ll find a video with all five games from Gaming the Network Poetic running in the same video. Some may appear to be a little too fast — I used the “saveFrame” function in Processing to export individual frames so that I could capture in high resolution, but some games have less processing going on and thus were able to export more frames in the same amount of time, so I had to speed some of them up to fit in the same time slice. Regardless, it still gives a better idea of how the games affect each other than seeing only one at a time (which you can also see in the GTNP Vimeo Channel).

I was down in Reno, NV at the University of Nevada last week to install Gaming the Network Poetic at the Prospectives.09 festival (you should check out the website, because every time that you do, this drill from Jonah Brucker-Cohen will drill into the wall at the Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery), and to deliver a talk on the work. Because I couldn’t afford to ship the whole piece out there, festival organizers Joseph DeLappe and Jeff Erickson graciously offered to build a table for it that ended up working quite well. After talking with Joseph about it, I decided to leave the G5 computers that ran the games exposed but positioned in such a way to reinforce the pentagonal shape of the table top. The previous post features some of the setup photos. The exhibition runs through December 16th, so check it out if you’re in the area

Some photos from my setup at Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery in Reno, NV for the Prospectives.09 festival. Higher quality photos coming soon. There was also some nice coverage of the event in the News Review.